Record

Document Reference	Os C 486
Title	Letter from Sir T.E. May, [later 1st Baron Farnborough], to J.E. Denison; 24 Dec. 1870
Date	24 December 1870
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Refers to Denison's patronage of 'the establishment' against other interests; informs him that he has shown letter to Gladstone; believes choice [for post of clerkship to table of House of Commons] will do him credit; states that he will enquire with Messrs Hansard about County expenditure; refers to Sir Grant Duff's speech.
Term	patronage, political
	financial affairs, expenditure
	parliamentary business, speeches
	governments, Liberal Government 1868-74

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA982	Gladstone; William E. (1809-1898); P.M. 1868-74 1880-85 1886 1892-94	1809-1898
NA10069	Duff; Mountstuart E. Grant (1829-1906); Sir; M.P. 1857-81 and colonial governor	1829-1906
NA9720	May; Thomas Erskine (1815-1886); 1st Baron Farnborough; constitutional jurist created 1886	1815-1886
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873